OCTAPLA

  

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OCTAPLA

Definition: OCTAPLA

OCTAPLA

Singular

1. A portion of the Old Testament prepared by Origen in the 3d century, containing the Hebrew text and seven Greek versions of it, arranged in eight parallel columns.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Octapla \Oc"ta*pla\, noun; etymologically plural, but syntactically sing. [New Latin expression, from Greek (for eight) -pla, as in English hexapla; compare to Greek eightfold.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "OCTAPLA"

Words rhyming with "OCTAPLA" (pronounced 'Oc"ta*pla'): Anopla. (additional references)

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Anagrams: OCTAPLA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-o-p-t"

-1 letter: catalo, tapalo.

-2 letters: clapt, coala, coapt, copal, octal.

-3 letters: acta, alto, atap, atop, calo, capo, clap, clop, clot, coal, coat, cola, colt, loca, lota, opal, paca, pact, plat, plot, taco, tala, talc, tapa, tola.

-4 letters: aal, act, ala, alp, alt, apt, cap, cat, col, cop, cot, lac, lap, lat, lop, lot, oat, oca, opt.

-5 letters: aa.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-o-p-t"
 

+2 letters: acropetal, cantaloup, placation, placatory, portulaca, postcaval.

 

+3 letters: allopatric, apolitical, apothecial, applicator, cantaloupe, cantaloups, noncapital, nyctalopia, placations, portulacas.

 

+4 letters: acropetally, anthropical, apocalyptic, application, applicators, applicatory, autocephaly, cantaloupes, caprolactam, complainant, complaisant, coplanarity, noncapitals, nyctalopias, pantropical, parfocality, piscatorial, plantocracy, postcranial, postglacial.

 

+5 letters: allelopathic, apocalyptism, apocalyptist, apolitically, applications, capitulation, caprolactams, complainants, contrapuntal, hypothalamic, kleptomaniac, metaphorical, mycoplasmata, nonpractical, occupational, operatically, paleobotanic, pathological, placentation, plastocyanin, platonically, postvaccinal, procathedral, proclamation, speciational, spectatorial, ultracompact.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: OCTAPLA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 43 54 41 50 4C 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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